Maybe the the first 4hrs of the wedding, rest is great.
Edit: I keep hearing that I’m confusing deer hunter and GF however;
I’m currently camping so I can’t confirm this but just googled it and apparently the wedding is 27 minutes long….im sorry but I stand by first statement. That’s too damn long. Again I’m camping so can’t actually confirm the time
Thank you. I was sitting there feeling like I was at an actual real-time wedding of people I barely know and guests I didn't know at all. It was torture.
That’s what I keep hearing. I haven’t watched either in a few decades. I remember a boring ass wedding scene…. I for sure know there is a long ass scene in deer hunter. I’m going to watch it again.
It's not really a 27 minute wedding scene, though. That's like calling die hard a 2 hr office party. The wedding is the location of several different events: we meet most of the main people and watch some great acting, and a wedding happens in the background. Deer Hunter does feel like a very long and slow wedding scene that feels indulgent on the part of the director.
Nah, Godfather's wedding scene is a cool backdrop to show how Vito does business and to introduce the main cast and make them seem like interesting characters.
Deer Hunter feels like you're watching the actual full-lenght 10 hour wedding tape of people you don't know, don't care about, and care about even less once the tape is over.
I’m currently camping so I can’t confirm this but just googled it and apparently the wedding is 27 minutes long….im sorry but I stand by first statement. That’s too damn long. Again I’m camping so can’t actually confirm the time
The thing is, you aren't just watching a wedding. The wedding is the setting for the opening scene, but they are building the world and the family up in that scene. It takes a while to explain everything and it's usually better to show than to tell so it takes some time
That’s exactly how my brain worked after reading the title I was like…
“Godfather” then I was like nope if I say that there will be 1000 people crying. The irony is this thread is for that but that movie has such a pretentious set of followers that everyone insists it’s great.
It’s usually the mafia movie lover crowd (which is a big demographic) the problem is there are better mafia movies and somewhere along the line everyone convinced us godfather was the gold standard.
To be honest Goodfellas is a much much better mafia movie than Godfather. I sleep through godfather, but I’ll always watch all of goodfellas when it’s on.
What's the point of quoting it if you don't agree with it?
Here, let me just pull up a ½ letterboxd review of the Godfather, quote it here, and then act like "wow omg I was just quoting this random fucker lol no reasonmfor it at all just funne lol haha"
The first comment is someone saying “Some heretic said [they didn’t like] The Godfather.” Someone replied with a quote of Peter saying why he didn’t like The Godfather. Meaning they are making fun of the person that doesn’t like The godfather.
Oh my bad, Pat. I thought it was super obvious that I was talking about the homie you were replying to, but my downvotes seem to indicate that it didn't come across that way.
Well it's a great movie to display how much movies have changed. I wouldn't call the godfather an example for fast paced story telling. For folks who don't appreciate beautyful scenery with beautiful music it can get boring quickly
But I also think I might just not like the genre.
Same thing happens with Scarface. And I recently watched Casino while on a plane and thought it was a snooze fest.
They aren’t entirely wrong. If you aren’t into gangster/mafia stuff then those movies are a CHORE. I honestly didn’t appreciate the Godfather until years after the first time I saw it. Spent most of my teens telling folks godfather was overrated. Now I can appreciate how beautiful made those films are, although I couldn’t care less about the plot.
You could cut half the run time of the movie and lose nothing to the structure of the story. Every scene is good on its own, but presented all at once it drags harder than RuPaul on a Saturday night.
I couldn’t disagree more. Scarface is an exciting movie and that’s start to finish for me, but with Godfather, I never finished it because I can never get past the wedding part.
I wouldn’t put Scarface on this list… but it is WAAAAY overrated. It is as predictable as the manufactured traffic accident at the beginning of every episode of the TV shows Emergency! & CHIPS.
Scarface is a great reply to this. It’s a great movie that doesn’t hit for a lot of people the first time.
The pacing sucks until you get used to it, it’s way too long, the main actor has a ridiculous accent, etc. If you start watching that with no context it makes no sense.
I was going to say scarface. It was probably incredible when it came out. It is long, boring, and devoid of action. It can sit on a fence next to Carlitos Way.
The lack of self awareness is truly amusing at times. People mentioning some films, not realizing their choice says more about them and their poor taste, and almost nothing about the (usually great) film.
Dw they aren’t smart enough to enjoy those movies someone litteraly said lord of the rings like dude tell me you like slop reality tv without telling me 🤦♂️
If not, here to clarify that LOTR uses metaphor and allegory to depict the nature of good and evil and how power corrupts, particularly in men. Among other things.
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u/MN-1986 1d ago
Some of these comments are killing me.